I realized right after the French lockdown that online mapathons were very important to me during this isolation period.
HOTOSM receives TED Audacious Grant
In this article we concentrate on Human Centered Design and how you can help us to build a platform that meets the needs of the people using it.
In recent months, the Guinean Red Cross Society and the Community Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Program (CP3) teams created their own map data, tracing remotely in OSM and via field data collection. The staff and volunteers involved gained valuable insight in how information is compiled and shared from OSM and other open source platforms.
The Canadian Red Cross Society’s Missing Maps activities in rural, remote and Indigenous communities.
This week MapSwipe was awarded Best Mobile Innovation Supporting Emergency or Humanitarian Situations in the Tech4Good category at GSMA’s Global Mobile (GLOMO) awards. As a volunteer-led and open-source project, built and maintained by a small but passionate team, we are extremely proud of this recognition amongst other esteemed projects in this category and the rest of the awards.
More than two thirds of Burundi’s 11-million population reportedly suffered from malaria since January 2019. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has contained the disease from spreading in eastern Burundi with an indoor residual spraying (IRS) campaign to protect some 300,000 inhabitants for months to come from the malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Open Street Map and MapAction post Hurricane Dorian
Reflections on 5 Years of Mapping